Boston Kickout
1995 film directed by Paul Hills
Boston Kickout is a 1995 British drama feature film written and directed by Paul Hills. It won the Euskal Media Prize at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Best Actor (John Simm) at the Cinema Jove International Film Festival in Valencia and Best Film at the Bermuda International Film Festival.
Plot
Schoolleaver Phil (Simm) – who moved with his father from an inner-city slum to what he was told would be a brighter future in Stevenage – finds himself caught up in a world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse in Nineties Britain.
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